06 September 1997 (Vol 315, Issue 7108)

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This Week In the BMJ

Reassurance doesn't work in anxious patients

BMJ 1997;315:0.3 (Published 6 September 1997)

Local health promotion initiatives on coronary heart disease can be cost effective

BMJ 1997;315:0.5 (Published 6 September 1997)

Compression should be routine for venous leg ulcers

BMJ 1997;315:0.4 (Published 6 September 1997)

Cognitive dysfunction is a risk factor for sustaining concussion

BMJ 1997;315:0.2 (Published 6 September 1997)

Separating frozen beefburgers risks injury to the hand

BMJ 1997;315:0.6 (Published 6 September 1997)

Drug misuse databases underestimate drug taking

BMJ 1997;315:0.7 (Published 6 September 1997)

Editorials

Prophylaxis after occupational exposure to HIV

BMJ 1997;315:557 (Published 6 September 1997)

Why the BMJ needs your data

BMJ 1997;315:558 (Published 6 September 1997)

Drug misusers: whose business is it?

BMJ 1997;315:559 (Published 6 September 1997)

Academia: the view from below

BMJ 1997;315:560 (Published 6 September 1997)

Treating medically unexplained physical symptoms

BMJ 1997;315:561 (Published 6 September 1997)

Death of Diana, Princess of Wales

BMJ 1997;315:562 (Published 6 September 1997)

Letters

General practitioners' attitudes towards treatment of opiate misusers

BMJ 1997;315:601 (Published 6 September 1997)

Treatment of opiate dependent drug misusers

BMJ 1997;315:602 (Published 6 September 1997)

Performing hysterectomy in low income women may be easier than educating them

BMJ 1997;315:603 (Published 6 September 1997)

Investigation of left ventricular dysfunction in acute dyspnoea

BMJ 1997;315:604 (Published 6 September 1997)

Specialised transfer teams can operate effectively from district general hospitals

BMJ 1997;315:605.1 (Published 6 September 1997)

Common criteria for providing powered wheelchairs should be agreed by wheelchair service centres

BMJ 1997;315:605.2 (Published 6 September 1997)

Stroke family care workers

BMJ 1997;315:606 (Published 6 September 1997)

Screening for HIV infection should be part of routine antenatal screening

BMJ 1997;315:608.1 (Published 6 September 1997)

Careers in academic medicine

BMJ 1997;315:608.2 (Published 6 September 1997)

Concordance of phenprocoumon dose in married couples

BMJ 1997;315:609.1 (Published 6 September 1997)

Ice cream headache

BMJ 1997;315:609.2 (Published 6 September 1997)

News

Thousands of women sterilised in Sweden without consent

BMJ 1997;315:563.1 (Published 6 September 1997)

Karolinska professor broke research rules

BMJ 1997;315:563.2 (Published 6 September 1997)

In brief

BMJ 1997;315:563.3 (Published 6 September 1997)

Florida wins huge award from tobacco firms

BMJ 1997;315:563.4 (Published 6 September 1997)

First rise in cot deaths for five years

BMJ 1997;315:563.5 (Published 6 September 1997)

Smoking death toll shifts to third world

BMJ 1997;315:563.6 (Published 6 September 1997)

US settlement harms rest of the world

BMJ 1997;315:563.7 (Published 6 September 1997)

Economic argument is the key to tobacco control

BMJ 1997;315:563.8 (Published 6 September 1997)

Thrombolysis in strokes carries large risk

BMJ 1997;315:563.9 (Published 6 September 1997)

US admits radiation experiments on 20 000 veterans

BMJ 1997;315:563.10 (Published 6 September 1997)

NHS plans for winter pressures

BMJ 1997;315:563.11 (Published 6 September 1997)

Anonymous AIDS testing in Hungary to end

BMJ 1997;315:563.12 (Published 6 September 1997)

Canadian doctors' leader calls for more central funding

BMJ 1997;315:563.13 (Published 6 September 1997)

NHS needs a sense of direction

BMJ 1997;315:563.14 (Published 6 September 1997)

Palestinian man shackled in Jerusalem hospital

BMJ 1997;315:563.15 (Published 6 September 1997)

United Kingdom spends less than average on health care

BMJ 1997;315:563.16 (Published 6 September 1997)

Clinical Reviews

Recent advances: General surgery

BMJ 1997;315:586 (Published 6 September 1997)

ABC of mental health: Mental health and the law

BMJ 1997;315:590 (Published 6 September 1997)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 1997;315:616 (Published 6 September 1997)

Editor's Choice

Not for the timid

BMJ 1997;315:0.1 (Published 6 September 1997)

Papers

Duration of cognitive dysfunction after concussion, and cognitive dysfunction as a risk factor: a population study of young men

BMJ 1997;315:569 (Published 6 September 1997)

Responses of consecutive patients to reassurance after gastroscopy: results of self administered questionnaire survey

BMJ 1997;315:572 (Published 6 September 1997)

A systematic review of compression treatment for venous leg ulcers

BMJ 1997;315:576 (Published 6 September 1997)

Papers - continued

The beefburger injury: a retrospective survey

BMJ 1997;315:580 (Published 6 September 1997)

Validation of a regional drug misuse database: implications for policy and surveillance of problem drug use in the uk

BMJ 1997;315:581 (Published 6 September 1997)

General practice

A cost effective, community based heart health promotion project in England: prospective comparative study

BMJ 1997;315:582 (Published 6 September 1997)

Education and debate

Clinical academic medicine: a Socratic dialogue

BMJ 1997;315:593 (Published 6 September 1997)

How to read a paper: Papers that tell you what things cost (economic analyses)

BMJ 1997;315:596 (Published 6 September 1997)

Trials randomised in clusters

BMJ 1997;315:600 (Published 6 September 1997)

Soundings

Be prepared

BMJ 1997;315:612.1 (Published 6 September 1997)

Personal Views

The future of medical education in South Africa

BMJ 1997;315:612.2 (Published 6 September 1997)

Drug misuse: GPs' pivotal role

BMJ 1997;315:613 (Published 6 September 1997)

Dodgy doctors: your time is up

BMJ 1997;315:614 (Published 6 September 1997)

Medicine and books

Women and Childbirth in the Twentieth Century

BMJ 1997;315:615.1 (Published 6 September 1997)

Health Care Law

BMJ 1997;315:615.2 (Published 6 September 1997)

Career focus

Eligible for flexible training?

BMJ 1997;315:S2-7108 (Published 6 September 1997)

Briefing

BMJ 1997;315:S3-7108 (Published 6 September 1997)

Briefing

BMJ 1997;315:S3a-7108 (Published 6 September 1997)

Briefing

BMJ 1997;315:S3b-7108 (Published 6 September 1997)

Fillers

A paper that changed my practice: Optional illness

BMJ 1997;315:0.8 (Published 6 September 1997)

Endpiece: Dr Johnson on information retrieval

BMJ 1997;315:0.9 (Published 6 September 1997)

When I use a word…: Sausages

BMJ 1997;315:0.10 (Published 6 September 1997)

Obituary

James Roderick Johnston (“J R”) CameronMurray Newell CoxJane Mooney FullertonDavid Nathaniel JohnJeanne Gloria Mason (née Roper)Klaus Abraham MischRobert Humphreys RamsayMoritz RollJohn Alexander RossShri Om SharmaLeonard Birnie StrangDavid Henry Ta…

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